Birth rates collapsed in the former GDR when the women labor participation rate rose. Men fled to the west until the wall was build. As a result the dictatorship needed labor. They told the women that they are only worth something if they work as much and as hard as men. It worked, the women labor participation rate rose sharply (over 90%) and birth rates collapsed, whereas women brake marriages more often then men. Both partners working at the limit to make ends meet will reduce population and produce a sick society. As a matter of fact almost no western country can hold its replacement level! Couples should try to raise their kids at home. Each single parent should not work more than five hours every day, until the kids are 18 years old. Every fourth interaction with a child and day care personal is not child-friendly and every 20th might be abusive Prof. Joerg Maywald explains. (Welt, "In Kitas erleben Kinder unterschiedliche Formen von Alltagsgewalt",  22.01.2023) How the situation in retirement homes is, everybody knows. Welt compares it to torture in the article "Die Ursachen der Missstände liegen im Pflegesystem" (Welt, Annette Dowideit, Frela Peters 10.01.2023) Furthermore, permanent female day care of house wifes or day care centers (which is even worse) will produce woke and very weak societies! This is one of my main research findings of my Existence Economics! If men think their job is more important than raising kids - don't get kids. Island has one of the highest purchasing power within the EU. If a couple gets a kid, the man and the woman have to stay home each for at least 5 month! Flexible working like I recommend is possible as well in Island! France and Hungary pay grand parents to look after their children. France is a beacon of light in Europe. Since January 2020  hungarian women with one child pay 25%, with two children 50% , with three children 75% less income tax. If you give birth to four kids women will never pay income tax in their entire life! I doubt that with an efficient program for living, like in the GDR, replacement levels will be ever reached again in most western countries. The inflation driver number 1 is rent - which is not part of measuring inflation in most countries. Why? There would be a revolution tomorrow. Since I worked with Destatis I was calling the department once and asking them why living is not part of the inflation basket - they did not know. 

The current EU is with regard to female participation rate at former GDR levels.
Studies in Japan and other especially western societies have proven that high educated women exit the labor market (which is often career suicide) for good in order to raise the kids. The west and expecially the EU is often praising itself for equal laws and equal treatment. This is the most violent civil right shame and infringement in modern democracies. The second is giving their own infants to day-care centers like in socialism. I grew up there. And I remember how I hated it. Look at the VW day-care scandal right now (2022) and the crude western ideas about "modern living". The only thing parents have to do is parenting! How can we do this if both work 8h a day and a houshold works more time than in the middle ages? There should be a public law that parents with kids must not work more than 5h a day and get 8h paid. My experience is that what you cannot do in 5h - you will not accomplish in 8h. Since I worked in Uli Hoeneß sausage factory, I propose to pay production workers for 8h a day and let them work 25h a week. Western production workers at VW enjoy a 28,8 hour week since 1994! This is especially interesting, since it was Ford that came up with the 8h workday idea! The SPD is demanding a 25h working week for all employees in Germany. (Business Insider, 10.11.2022, SPD Fordert 25h-Stunden-Woche) Since I will prove that each mind-field gravitates in space time we have to be coutious not to jeoparardize this quantum equilibrium easily! Look for instance at the Chronic Fatique Syndrome (not just) in Japan which produces severe sleep disorders (Nature,16.11.20) & PTBS (instable time loops) as I described in my book 2016. If the society/group is permanently under pressure (thus our relatively stable time system we simply call perception or ego boundaries) an individual, a family, a group or society can even epigenetically burn out or die! South Koreans and even Japanese have lost their appetite for sex! This may sound funny to you, but it isn't, since our biology is 100% driven by reproduction! Positive and supporting mind entaglement theories will prove & did in sociology already, that the way we treat each other enables mind stability. Bad sociology (through stress) creates highly fragmented (instable) minds! Neurocientists puzzle about why the mammals are yawning for centuries! Nobody has found the solution - but it is so easy! The quantum entangled minds signal and trigger to retreat from its too stable time view (our highly transmitter inhibited world view, quantum limited time view,  can simply only be outhibited (see F.W. Myers) for some time!!!!) and business in order to shield our highly complex dna-neurotransmitter inhibited time-matrix we call perception! If you stress yourself permanently over the edge - you might get good scientists in the end - but not a functioning society. Permanently pushing ourself with drug and coffee will destroy and disrupt our genetics & stable metaphysical mind control circuits - causing aggression (attack), angst (insecurity & uncertainty) und depression (retreat). Concentrating more than 16h a day as a family (if both work full time and than have to play with kids and go to supermarket etc.) in such an (work) environment can only produce one thing - a sustainably sick society! The Japanese even created the word Karoshi for the death by exessive labor! In physics we can call our metaphysical mind condition metastability. Normally we do our things (and want to do our things) in autopilot. Thus, our neurons are simply not firing while performing well-tested tasks. In case you stress yourself or a society long enough out of balance (you cannot feel & coordinate harmonized time), this excited states (please look it up at Physics & even in Metaphysics it is the same: Level of Arousal/Erregungsniveau) will lead to faster decay! It is as simple as that!!! Time has only two possible conditions: Relatively Stable or Relatively Instable! It cannot be both at the same time! It can lead to black holes (death) or to stable systems we can observe in the universe (our stable day-perception). The simple reason why some people get very old is willful ignorance*. The more time you let into your system - the more fragile your world view gets. I like to add here that over-consumtion of electronic devices fragments the perception as well and leads to decay. This is the reason why young people are very stable and often dumb and older people seem often to be more fragile while looking in their eyes. The eyes developed out of the brain over time. You must feel metaphysical times of your counterparts! It is central for our survival! Instinct tells you very quickly if you let somebody enter your world or not. No other ape race kills more often its infants than the human race. How far is the human race with regard to open its mind to somebody? How trustworthy is our society dealing with individuals that have a different world view? How much depressions are our political and sociological systems produce? Are we living in healthy reproductive societies? In order to find it out - start working less.
*Since I lived on Sardegna I can report that I have never experienced any group talking that slowly. It is almost like they are singing. The beautiful, shielded from stress island - produces the oldest men and women on earth! Complex living in cities for instance produces still rather instability as Joachim Radkau explained in "Das Zeitalter der Nervösität". Since we have to pay almost up to 40-50% of our income for living - it will get worse! I promise you! That you cannot survive without good local industry as in the 90s within Eeastern Germany, i proved in my book -Diktatur des Individuums- in 2016. The fertility rate collapsed under 1 child (Replacement Level: 2,13). The current birth rate in South Korea is: 0,87 per woman! (Statista, 2022) Thus, since I published my book - things got way worse! Tokyo has a birth rate of about 1,08 per woman, where people even sleep in the streets after work - because of mental prostration from over-work! This is what society suicide looks like! George Paul Hefty famously said: "A society.....which is dependend on immigration from the whole world, in order to just maintain their social and economic survival, suffers from a grave system error." (Klingsboegl et al., 2002, 18) (Diktatur des Individuums, P. 182, 2016, Rockstone Research) We have to accept, that humans are no machines but complex time gravitaters! A study from Microsoft (2015) indicated that the average attention span of people is 8 seconds, compared to a goldfish which has 9 seconds. (Time, 14.05.2015, Kevin McSpadden) Adults can concentrate for about 90 Minutes on one thing - but this law is crumbling as well. Do you still wonder why the brains of the humans are shrinking? I am not. Since we can just focus effectively on one thing 1,5h in a row, you should do two 15 minutes breaks in between! You will work 4,5h in total. If you do things on autopilote (the neurons are not firing during the task - you will start yawning much later!), like driving a car and you do not enrich your world with a higher level of arousal - it will be way easier to work longer though!